winevines
11-29-2008, 11:46 PM
I am sure we all know about Bees for Development and other similar organizations, but I came across this one and thought folks would find it interesting. Also supported by the Clinton Global Initiative.
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The Women Empowerment through Honey Bee Farming Commitment is designed to economically empower women through technical training, enabling them to generate a stable source of income and contribute to their family’s well being.*The commitment will address the employment discrepancy between male and female beekeepers in the Northern Areas of Pakistan (NAP) & Chitral and promote equal opportunity. The project’s impact will improve women’s status in their communities, as they become more integrated in the decision-making process within male-dominated societies. The Hashoo Foundation Women Empowerment through Honey Bee Farming Commitment to Action will mobilize women from the ‘apron to the apiary’ and into an environment for commerce, bringing about a tremendous social change in the Pakistani region, where women are confined to private spaces. HF commits to train 125 new women beekeepers in the Northern Areas of Pakistan (NAP), helping them generate income in a sustainable and dignified way, enabling them to provide for their families’ health care, children’s education, as well as improving their nutrition and overall well-being. *HF and its partners will develop honey production, extending sales and marketing of the honey and its by-products; as well, they will better utilize trained women beekeepers in promoting this enterprise for poverty alleviation.
http://www.hashoofoundation.org/women.html
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The Women Empowerment through Honey Bee Farming Commitment is designed to economically empower women through technical training, enabling them to generate a stable source of income and contribute to their family’s well being.*The commitment will address the employment discrepancy between male and female beekeepers in the Northern Areas of Pakistan (NAP) & Chitral and promote equal opportunity. The project’s impact will improve women’s status in their communities, as they become more integrated in the decision-making process within male-dominated societies. The Hashoo Foundation Women Empowerment through Honey Bee Farming Commitment to Action will mobilize women from the ‘apron to the apiary’ and into an environment for commerce, bringing about a tremendous social change in the Pakistani region, where women are confined to private spaces. HF commits to train 125 new women beekeepers in the Northern Areas of Pakistan (NAP), helping them generate income in a sustainable and dignified way, enabling them to provide for their families’ health care, children’s education, as well as improving their nutrition and overall well-being. *HF and its partners will develop honey production, extending sales and marketing of the honey and its by-products; as well, they will better utilize trained women beekeepers in promoting this enterprise for poverty alleviation.
http://www.hashoofoundation.org/women.html